Thing #11

It seems to me that search engines to do things like add rss feed to your reader should be easy. While the search engines included would allow you to get to blogs and give you the ability to add to your preferred reader I did not like the blogs that they had to offer. To me it seemed a lot more commercial in nature and less about the information I want to see. This is probably just a thing about what I am looking for but when I think of blogs I have an idea that it is someones thoughts, not a company webpage with a note updating it.

Of the searches that were offered I thought that google blog search was probably the closest to what I wanted and as such was probably what I would call the easiest to use. I am probably in the minority in my selection for hardest. I chose technorati as the winner of that title. From the minute I logged onto the website I had an aversion to it, I tried it quickly, disliked the results and promptly left the site.

As I have already talked about here the most surprising thing to me was the type of pages I was hitting. Given time and possibly more refinement to my searches I would possibly find more of what I want. As it is the best way I have found for getting to blogs and feed of what I want is through referral. By this I mean that I go to someones website. after reading their information I look to see who they are following and at times I will end up linking to them also.

I hope everyone had as much fun with this assignment as I did and I look forward to seeing everyone out in the ether and maybe come across your blogs.

Steve